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Harrow 1945

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Harrow]

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Dental Clinics.
The Clinic, Elmwood Avenue, Kenton.
76, Marlborough Hill.
The Clinic, Alexandra Avenue, South Harrow.
The Clinic, Roxeth Hill.
Stanburn School.
The sessions are held most week-day mornings and afternoons.
Physio-Therapeutic Treatment.
Treatment sessions are held throughout the week, cases being seen
by a consultant physio-therapeutist on the mornings of Wednesday and
Friday; Monday and Tuesday afternoons or Thursday evenings; or
the orthopaedic surgeon attending on the morning of the first Wednesday
of the month.
Tuberculosis Clinic.
The part of the district roughly that to the west and south of the
main L.M.S. line, is served by the Chest Clinic at 25, Greenhill Crescent,
where the medical officer attends on Monday morning, Thursday afternoon
and some evenings. Persons from the area north and east of the
railway line attend the Chest Clinic at Redhill County Hospital, where
sessions are held on the mornings of Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday
and some evenings.
Venereal Diseases.
In addition to the hospitals at which treatment is available under the
London and Home Counties scheme, facilities are available at the following
County hospitals:—Central Middlesex Hospital, Acton Lane, Willesden;
Hillingdon Hospital, Royal Lane, Hillingdon; West Middlesex
Hospital, Twickenham Road, Isleworth.
The most convenient of the London hospitals at which treatment is
provided, are St. Mary's Hospital, Cambridge Place, Paddington, and
University College Hospital, Gower Street.
ESTABLISHMENTS FOR MASSAGE AND SPECIAL
TREATMENT.
The Council adopted part VII of the Middlesex County Council Act,
1934 (now part XII of the 1944 Act), regarding establishments for
massage and special treatment. These are defined as premises for the
reception or treatment of persons requiring massage, manicure or chiropody,
electric treatment or radiant heat, light, electric, vapour or other
baths for therapeutic treatment, or other similar treatment.
Subject to provisos regarding practice by medical practitioners or
members of the Chartered Society of Massage and Medical Gymnastics,
and regarding certain premises such as hospitals, no person can carry on
an establishment for massage or special treatment without a licence from
the local authority authorising him to do so. Bye-laws are in force
regarding the conduct of the business.